in reality the second the gulf of tonkin incident has never happened. was the whole basis of this moral fraud and alive perpetrated at the highest levels of our government we must ask ourselves that as we survey the damage that was done to our country and especially the damage done to the vehicle. there make sure you go down or green or turn around turn or ask yourself what's going to happen all right. if kennedy who thought he could finesse the vietnam situation with special forces johnson's approach was brutally simple he figured if he could kill enough of them they would cry uncle in the simplest way to kill us with their power. promised. to add her home. for her. the primary tool that the u.s. used in the vietnam war was aerial bombardment that is how the most people were killed both north and south the u.s. to use nukes. they used white phosphorus they used chemical agents but most of all they used fashioned high explosives. and by the time it was all over the u.s. government had dropped three times the amount of bombs dropped by all parties in wor

and mcnamara discuss the second gulf of tonkin attack before it takes place how would they know about the attack before it happened and why would they want to keep that prior knowledge a secret unless they were planning it. now this is an action that we might well wish to consider after the second attack but i think it would be an appropriate general peter three of the great and appropriate to provide the cat's parts commanded out of the already there'll be ample time after a second attack to bring this problem to your attention you can then decide how far you are to pursue the attacker into a debate area. but i wish we could have something that we are already picked out and fair and just get about three bam quake grettir we will have that and i know i talked about my name on it on top and i thought that was the most important subject we should consider today and be prepared to recommend to you a response a retaliation against north vietnam in the event that the tactics place of the fact that. we are now we better do better to watch is something like i don't want to go into a base eit

congressional leaders of both parties supported the gulf of tonkin resolution in fact only two members of congress voted against the resolution senators more civil oregon and greening of alaska. being in the minority never cruz it's your own flag history card that senator greening and i voted in the interest of the american people this morning when we voted against this resolution and i know how the american people remember what this resolution really is it's a resolution which seeks to give the president united states the power to make war without a declaration of war the gulf of tonkin resolution was not a declaration of war there never was a declaration of war in vietnam but to serve much the same purpose the president was given broad powers to wage war but what the congress did not know what the country did not know is that the second attack in the gulf of tonkin may never have . it is now known beyond any reasonable doubt that an attack did not take place even the official us navy history states there was actually no north vietnamese attack that night. if one. telegram which we la

boats in the tonkin gulf of the night before the tonkin gulf incident, it's worth reading up on this, it's amazing people don't know these stories better than they ought to know them, the night before the tonkin gulf, the alleged tonkin gulf attack, u.s. destroyers had been a company south vietnamese raiding parties who were raiding a north vietnamese territory. and it was all hush-hush, of course. we weren't supposed to be doing the. so the north vietnamese pt boats came out and challenge the destroyers who were doing that, but didn't fire on them. and when the destroyers of hostile action, they ran, they were outgunned. the next night all that we know is that destroyers, the maddox and the turner joy started firing. and that's what johnson said those boys did know what they were shooting at. there's no evidence that they were firing at anything. but since the united states was involved in an illicit activity the night before which could not be discussed, the whole thing was basically a fraud, and johnson knew it was a fraud, which he used to get a blank check to make compliant congr

the night before the tonkin gulf, the alleged tonkin gulf attack, u.s. destroyers had been accompanying south vietnamese raiding parties who were raiding north vietnamese territory. and it was all hush hush, of course. we weren't supposed to be doing that. so the north vietnamese pt boats came out and challenged the destroyers who were doing that but didn't fire on then. and when the destroyers took hostile action against the pt boats, they ran. they went back. they were outgunned. the next night all that we know is that destroyers, the maddox and the turner joy started firing. and that's when johnson said those boys didn't know what they were shooting at. there's no evidence that they were firing on anything. but since the united states was involved in illicit activity the night before which could not be discussed -- all right, the whole thing turned, the whole thing was, basically, a fraud, and johnson knew it was a fraud which he used to get a blank check from a compliant congress. they passed the tonkin gulf resolution. only two votes in the senate a